Lighting device

• US 20060120070A1
• Filed: 01/25/2006
• Published: 06/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Energizer Brands, LLC (Energizer Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Angelo Kotsis, David R. Dalton, John Robert Brown
• Inventors: Kotsis, Angelo, Brown, John Robert, Dalton, David R.
• Granted Patent: US 7,524,081 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/200
• CPC Class Codes: F21L 4/04 characterised by the provision of a light source housing portion adjustably fixed to the remainder of the device
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/0885 for portable lighting devices
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/145 for portable lighting devices
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2103/00 Elongate light sources, e.g. fluorescent tubes
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2113/00 Combination of light sources
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/80 Light emitting diode

Abstract

The present invention provides a lighting device having a light housing including a light source being rotatably connected by a rotatable connection means to a lighting device body, said body having said rotatable connection means positioned so as to allow said light housing to lay adjacent said body and to define therebetween a narrow space which is accessible in a base to top direction. The present invention also provides a light housing for a lighting device, said light housing including a light source holder at one end thereof, said light housing also including means to receive a mounting member at one end of said light housing opposite to said light source holder, said light housing being characterised by said light source holder allowing limited pivotal movement of said light source when said light source is mounted in said light source holder, said limited pivotal movement being in the range of 5° to 30°. The present invention further provides a method of assembling a light housing as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, said method including the steps of: attaching said cover to said box; inserting said tubular lens through said aperture; engaging said spigot with one end of said tubular lens; inserting said lighting source into the second end of said tubular lens; and securing said light source to said housing. The present invention also provides light housing for a lighting device, said light housing including a first and second face and sides there around, a first side having a mounting spigot to receive one end of a tubular lens, and a second side opposite to said first side having an aperture therethrough, through which aperture tubular lens can pass and in which is received the other end of said tubular lens, said aperture and said mounting spigot being aligned.

Claims

1-35. -35. (canceled)

36. A lighting device comprising:

a lighting device body containing at least one dry cell, said lighting device body having a terminal mounting edge;

a light housing having a rear face and a forward cover, said light housing enclosing a plurality of light source assemblies and said light housing rests against the lighting device body in a retracted position;

wherein each light source assembly includes at least one LED enclosed within a tubular lens; and

wherein the light housing is rotatably attached to the terminal mounting edge so the forward face of the light housing can be selectively repositioned between 180° and

225°

relative to the retracted position.

37. The lighting device of claim 36 further comprising at least one raised projection on along the terminal mounting edge to provide a locking bias to releasably hold the light housing in the retracted positioned.

38. The lighting device of claim 37 wherein the rear face does not allow light to be transmitted therethrough.

39. The lighting device of claim 36 wherein the rear face does not allow light to be transmitted therethrough.